How To get about, a beginners guide.

How To get around the Community

Once you log in, click on the Community Tab. This will bring you to a page which looks similar to Facebook called The Hub. 

Once there, you will see the Recent Activities section, here you can Share your status, Photos, Videos and Create Events by clicking on the relevant tabs

Above the ‘Recent Activities’ you will see a dashboard  for your profile, friends, groups, photos, videos, events and blogs. You will also see little images of the World, friends and comments  – these are your notifications and a number will pop up beside them if you receive any new notifications.

Under Profile Tab, you are able to edit profile, change privacy, set preferences and customise your page.

When you click on your profile picture it brings you to your page. This is very much similar to the Community, but it shows clearly as you scroll down, your rank, friends, groups, events, photos etc. on the right hand side of the page. It also shows everything that you have done in the community i.e. posting blogs, liking images etc. Note: The Community shows the recent activity of what your friends have done, your profile only shows recent activity of what you have done on the site. 

Under the Friends Tab you can find friends, search for friends and even invite friends to join the site. You can invite your friends to the site, by inputting their email address.
 

Under the Groups Tab you can search for groups, monitor and manage your own groups and see what invites you have received to join groups.

You also have the ability to create groups
 

Once in the create group page, you simply input all the details that you want and state what category your group belongs to. You can also determine what notifications you receive to your email related to updates from your new group.

Under the Photos and Video Tabs, you are able to upload your media to the site. They can be managed and can be deleted by moving your cursor on the photo or video that you wish to delete
 

Under the Events Tab, you have the ability to create events. These can be in the form of arranging an informal tournament with friends or trying to get people together for a casual night of gaming.

Once in the Events System, you can create and event and manage any pending event invitations. 

When you are in the create an event page, you choose the title of the event and the category that it belongs to. Location, start time, end time and number of guests have to be inputted. Once you have all the information, you click ‘Create Event’.

You are also able to create group events, by clicking into the group you are moderator of and scrolling to Events on the right hand side. Click on ‘View All Events’ and you are brought to the event screen for that group. Once at that page, click on create event and do the same as you would for a normal event

How To use the Community Blogs

When in the Blogs segment of the site, it is important to note two things:

·         When posting a blog, you are only selecting the category ‘Community Blogs’

·         When posting a blog, please ensure that it follows the Community Usage Rules as stated in the T&Cs of the site

You can select to go into Community Blogs in two ways. The first is by going to ‘Community’ at the top of the page, and following the Dropdown to ‘Community Blogs’. The second is by choosing ‘Blogs’ tab in the dashboard that has Profile etc.

Once there, you click on the ‘New Blog Post’ icon. It is represented by a pencil on paper 

Here, you then input the title of your blog post, insert a blog image, language and category  (Community Blogs). Type what you want about the blog, insert links, pictures anything that you want. Make sure to include tags at the end and if you want to be found on Google, insert Meta Tags. Once you are finshed, click ‘Publish Now’. Et viola! Your post has been published! 

To subscribe to bloggers (either from the community or who work for XBLG), you simply search for their blog or click on their name (while in the blogs segment) and all their produced work will pop up. Click the ‘Subscribe to updates from author’ to get notifications of any new blog posts that are posted.

You are able to search for blogs through their tags as well, but clicking on the tags icon from the Blog Dashboard 

How To Input Videos into Blog Posts

Some of you may have experience writing articles for WordPress and so would understand how to embed videos into your written pieces. This is a How To for those who are unsure, or who have never needed to embed a video into their work. Copy and Paste the example if you wish, and replace with the related YT video URL, Width and Height of the video. This is found in the ‘Embed’ tab under the YT video. 

{“video”:”Insert video URL”,”width”:”____”,”height”:”___”(found in the embed feature of the video under ‘Embed’ option)}

Example: 

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